Virgil Bierschwale for United States Senate 2012

I couldn’t agree more with Clint Eastwood on this matter.

We are divided like never before simply because the two poles of the four corners that should be maintaining the balance have been bought out by the one corner.

You are probably thinking, what in the hell is he talking about which is a valid question.

Let’s look at this picture in greater detail.

If we have only Business and People, or Republican and Democrat, will humanity suffer as people fight for the jobs that are available?

After all, how many business leaders will ask themselves these questions?

• What is the role of business in a free society?
• What about successful businesspeople?
• Do businesses have responsibilities to the public that go beyond the law?
• What do they include?
• What virtues does the practice of business instill?
• What vices?
• And what does it mean if the answers the general public gives to these questions diverge significantly from those given by the business elite?

Very few, right?

So how do we stop terrible things like this from happening?

Nobody wants a big Government.
Nobody wants an all invasive Big Brother invading our lives.

But if we do not have a Government that is large enough to counter the oppressive forces that very large multinational corporations with Billions of dollars can wield, then who will maintain this balance between Greed and Humanity, or Republicans and Democrats?

Who?

Which is why I for one believe that we need to start teaching our children in our schools about this pendulum that has swung for generations from one side to the other and back.

This pendulum swing where humanity eventually rises up in revolt like during the Marie Antoinette days or the days described in the video above or many of the times throughout history where the people have stepped up to the plate when our very humanity itself was jeopardized.

After all, only then can we begin to work together to build a future where we recognize these swings from one extreme to the other and we work together to maintain this delicate balance between the Business communities need for Profit and the People’s right to a life that should be better and richer and fuller for everyone, with opportunity for each according to ability or achievement regardless of social class or circumstances of birth.

If we do this simple thing, then I believe that we can raise our children to understand that in order for us to provide opportunity and democracy and even capitalism for everybody, we need to elect leaders that realize that they have only two duties and these two duties need to apply at every level from your local community organizations all the way up to county, state and federal Government.

These two duties are to:

1. Wisely utilize the combined tax revenue that All of our citizens pay in to take us into the future in a manner that will benefit the majority, not the few, and
2. Develop, monitor and enforce only regulations that will maintain this balance.

These 3 corners alone might work except for corruption.

So how do we expose corruption.

This requires a media that is not silenced by Government regulations, nor shackled by the business community.

After all, if the business side of these 4 corners owns the media and government, why would they allow the media to expose any corruption or wrong doing?

So yes, Clint Eastwood.

It is half time in America and I believe Chumbawamba says it best.

Right now, here at home in America we have a problem.

A really big problem.

Our politicians think it can be solved by jobs, but they make no distinction between jobs paying less than $15.00 per hour and those making more than $15.00 per hour.

After all, a job is a job, isn’t it?

And our economists blame everything on the sub prime mortgage crisis which ole Virgil maintains is but a symptom of what is happening because believe me, I’ve been there, done that, and got the emotional scars to prove it, not to mention the financial ones.

“It felt like, finally, school was paying off,” he said. “I knew the world needed people who can build things.”

At the same time, however, the electronics industry was changing, and Apple — with products that were declining in popularity — was struggling to remake itself. One focus was improving manufacturing. A few years after Mr. Saragoza started his job, his bosses explained how the California plant stacked up against overseas factories: the cost, excluding the materials, of building a $1,500 computer in Elk Grove was $22 a machine. In Singapore, it was $6. In Taiwan, $4.85. Wages weren’t the major reason for the disparities. Rather it was costs like inventory and how long it took workers to finish a task.

“We were told we would have to do 12-hour days, and come in on Saturdays,” Mr. Saragoza said. “I had a family. I wanted to see my kids play soccer.”

Modernization has always caused some kinds of jobs to change or disappear. As the American economy transitioned from agriculture to manufacturing and then to other industries, farmers became steelworkers, and then salesmen and middle managers. These shifts have carried many economic benefits, and in general, with each progression, even unskilled workers received better wages and greater chances at upward mobility.

But in the last two decades, something more fundamental has changed, economists say. Midwage jobs started disappearing. Particularly among Americans without college degrees, today’s new jobs are disproportionately in service occupations — at restaurants or call centers, or as hospital attendants or temporary workers — that offer fewer opportunities for reaching the middle class.

Even Mr. Saragoza, with his college degree, was vulnerable to these trends. First, some of Elk Grove’s routine tasks were sent overseas. Mr. Saragoza didn’t mind. Then the robotics that made Apple a futuristic playground allowed executives to replace workers with machines. (Moderator: And nowFoxconn wants to use robots, because they’re not only cheaper than paying wages, robots are also easier to manage and “don’t commit suicide”.)

Some diagnostic engineering went to Singapore. Middle managers who oversaw the plant’s inventory were laid off because, suddenly, a few people with Internet connections were all that were needed.

Mr. Saragoza was too expensive for an unskilled position. He was also insufficiently credentialed for upper management. He was called into a small office in 2002 after a night shift, laid off and then escorted from the plant. He taught high school for a while, and then tried a return to technology. But Apple, which had helped anoint the region as “Silicon Valley North,” had by then converted much of the Elk Grove plant into an AppleCare call center, where new employees often earn $12 an hour.

There were employment prospects in Silicon Valley, but none of them panned out. “What they really want are 30-year-olds without children,” said Mr. Saragoza, who today is 48, and whose family now includes five of his own.

After a few months of looking for work, he started feeling desperate. Even teaching jobs had dried up. So he took a position with an electronics temp agency that had been hired by Apple to check returned iPhones and iPads before they were sent back to customers. Every day, Mr. Saragoza would drive to the building where he had once worked as an engineer, and for $10 an hour with no benefits, wipe thousands of glass screens and test audio ports by plugging in headphones. (Moderator: We now have about 27 million Americans in the same boat as Mr. Saragoza, thanks in part to American corporations like Apple.)

Click here to read the article.

What I just described is part of an excellent article by Bud and what he describes is happening all across America and this is why the mortgage business is slowly but surely being exterminated.

I made the leap from technology to Real Estate because of what has happened in that article above and I now see it playing out in the Real Estate industry, so if you are a realtor like myself, or a small town mortgage banker, or a title company or any of the thousands of companies that make a living off of the real estate industry, you need to be standing up and bringing our jobs home.

At the same time, you also need to be aware that this will devastate the people in other countries who have risen from destitution to middle class in their country as I attempt to describe in this article.

Many of you blindly follow your pied pipers off a cliff without thinking.

It doesn’t matter whether you are a republican and read the National Review or a democrat and read the New York Times.

It is time for you to take off your blinders of denial and reach out to your neighbor because whether he or she is a republican or a democrat, in the coming decades, or possibly generations you will be fighting side by side for the freedom and opportunity that you took for granted during your my side is right years.

What I’m about to describe is what is ultimately going to happen to you if you were in the middle class.

I can’t predict when, but just as Mr. Saragoza found out and as I myself have found out, their are no middle class jobs except for those that are already filled, unless you know somebody on the inside perhaps because of the filtering systems that we have built into our selection process.

Now, if you have never made more than about $20.00 per hour, you will not be experiencing for some time what those that have made more than $50,000 per year have made.

Think of it as three bell curves.

Something along the line of this one.

On the right hand side we have the Middle Class and they are already on the downward slope even though some of my friends that it has not happened to yet do not believe it will ever happen as they are ten foot tall and indispensable just like I thought I was.

In the middle we have the Working Poor and and they are still on the upward trend as they have not yet topped out.

These are the people making from minimum wage to maybe $20.00 or so per hour.

They had a finite number of jobs that were created by those entrepreneurs that left the middle class to start up their new companies and those that simply thought they could do a better job than their previous boss.

Many of them start up in garages similar to this, or in rented warehouse spaces.

But now these former Middle Class and even some of the would be Entrepreneurs are fighting for the Working Poor Jobs and at the same time wages are slowly but surely going down.

At the current time it is unnoticeable unless you look at some of the wage trends by job classification so many of the working poor do not believe this is happening either.

But at some point the Working Poor bell curve will top and it will begin its downward slope just as it happened to the Middle Class.

Now the corporate executives and the ultra wealthy do not believe it will ever happen to them because they control all the marbles in this game of life.

They are in the bell curve on the left hand side and they lag the Middle class bell curve which is trending down because of some of their actions and they lag the Working Poor bell curve which is still on the upward slope.

How far do they lag?

I can’t predict that, but I can guarantee with certainty that if we continue on this path, ultimately it will happen to the Corporate Executives and the Ultra Wealthy because when the sheep or cattle or slaves, meaning you and me do not make more than what it costs to live in our community, then at that point we will not be able to buy their widgets, oils, services, etc., and at that point they will be faced with the prospect of exterminating us, feeding us or some other nightmare scenario.

I know I’m looking way too far out in advance for the majority of people to even comprehend, but I can guarantee you that the leaders of China know that they have to control dissent with a strong fist, and they have to make sure that the people have what is necessary for them to get by, even if getting by is just a few crumbs more than the family next door have.

Because if the people do not have what it takes to provide for their family, they will revolt just as has happened throughout history in those Marie Antoinette moments.

Now I know you don’t believe me, so let me show you what is happening in my own life as an example.

I live a quiet, frugal existence now.

These are my expenses that I need to survive at the level I want to survive at, unless of course I can turn this madness around and get back into the race to be part of the 1%.

As you can see, I need a job that pays $15.09 per hour after taxes just to survive and I live about as cheaply as you can live with the exception of a few beers in the evening and sure I could cut that out and blow my brains out to end the thoughts that fill my brain in the evenings, but that is not a solution.

Except of course, possibly for the people that I once considered to be my friends and neighbors.

You see, I live in a very small town.

I am shunned because I will not get a job even though the only jobs that I can find around here pay only $8.00 to $10.00 per hour.

I know what my minimum “nut” is to turn the doors every day and I have decades of skills that I have been building and they are mechanical, software, electronics, and more.

So I decide to start a repair shop because even at $30.00 per hour labor, which is very low as the shops that have been in business for decades are getting $65.00 per hour or more.

But I didn’t count on the small town mentality that believes if you will not get a job, they will keep you down by refusing to trade with you.

Nope, I’m not disgruntled.

I’m just realistic and I will find a way out of this mess because I have my brain, and I have the skills necessary to show these so called Apple (and other) executives what real leadership is.

But I chose to tale my little tale of woe because their are many that do not have my skills to reinvent themselves and you need to comprehend what they, and maybe one of these days yourself are going to go through if we continue on this path.

But wait, it gets worse.

Those corporate executives, and ultra wealthy think that their wealth will protect them no matter the future.

If the Democratic countries (which are forcing Austerity on their people because of the actions of their corporations) fall.

What will replace them?

Communism?

Sharia Law?

Are either of these a beacon of shining light for the oppressed of the world?

Or will they turn off that light for the people of the World?

Trust me, If I was a communist which I’m not, or I believed in Sharia Law which I do not, and I was their leader.

I’m going to need your money to provide for the people so that they do not revolt.

And what happens to you matters not one bit to me.

So tell me.

Is this the future you want for our World?

Good.

I didn’t think so either and I knew you just didn’t look far enough into the future so let’s work together to turn around this nightmare that threatens to destroy Democracy.

It begins with us realizing that inflation is not the boogey man that everybody says it is and that there are only three alternatives to a strong and Democratic Capitalistic society:

1. Ever Increasing Wages
2. No Wages which is unacceptable to all of us
3. Ever Decreasing Wages

Where you went wrong is seeking Ever Increasing Wages for yourselves and forcing Ever Decreasing Wages on the rest of the World.

Inflation is going to happen because of the Greed of the Suppliers.

After all, it is natural to want more just as it is natural to recreate.

Our key is to manage the process somehow, and I’m willing to work with you to develop a solution.

But I can’t do it from where I am at, although I could do it as a United States Senator representing the Great State of Texas.

There are others like me out there that have looked far into the future.

People like Bob Hall.

He too can’t work to develop a solution from the outside looking in.

But he could as the President of the United States of America.

Many of you will not read this which means it will happen.

When, I can’t tell you as their are too many variables.

For those of you that are willing to cast aside your shackles of ideology, we need your help.

You can learn how to help Bob become the President of the United States in the upper right hand side bar.

You can learn about my bid to be the United States Senator representing Texas at VirgilBierschwale.com

You can do your part by hiring Bud by clicking on the article above.

After all, we are all Americans and we all want a prosperous and Democratic Society for our children where our leaders maintain the Balance between the Business communities need for Profit and the People’s right to a life that should be better and richer and fuller for everyone, with opportunity for each according to ability or achievement regardless of social class or circumstances of birth.

We can’t do this by ourselves, but 300 million people reaching across their neighbors fence line to discuss their children’s future can.

It really is that simple.

As somebody that has experienced first hand the future that your sons and daughters will experience if we continue on this path of sending our jobs to other countries which is enabling communism and sharia law at the expense of democracy, I can promise you that you do not want this for their future.

Now I’m not an Obama lover either and I’ve always considered myself a conservative republican, so don’t go there with your cries of ideologies.

Here is the state of the union as I see it.

Whether we agree with President Obama or not, he is the President of the United States of America and we should respect that.

Whether we agree with President Obama or not, all we have to do is look around our communities to see our once booming businesses of all sizes shutting their doors..

I want you to forget about this republican and democrat crap for a minute because that is what it is.

Do we want a country that is a beacon of shining light for the oppressed of the World that believes in, and promotes the Balance between the Business communities need for Profit and the People’s right to a life that should be better and richer and fuller for everyone, with opportunity for each according to ability or achievement regardless of social class or circumstances of birth.

We need both.

For instance, let’s look at Realtor’s simply because I’m a licensed Realtor.

I became a licensed Realtor when my middle class job in the software industry was sent to India and I was forced to choose between working for minimum wage, or reinventing myself and picked myself up by my boot straps just like any self respecting Texan would do.

Yet in the fall of 2008 I among with the rest of the Realtor’s watched the real estate industry almost die.

Sure there are still some areas where those that have money are buying, but for the most part, it is only those that have money and they are buying less and less as they lose their money.

But let’s take it further.

Let’s continue to send our jobs offshore via the Free Trade Agreements that Kay Bailey Hutchison and John Cornyn have both signed and we will even ignore their pledge to worship the ground that Grover Norquist walks on that I would not have signed.

Let’s watch our society grow from a healthy economy where we have 20% poor, 60% middle class and 20% wealthy to a crumbling economy where we have 80% poor and 20% wealthy and ask ourselves.

Will that put our mortgage bankers out of work because people won’t be able to afford mortgages?

Will that put our title companies out of work because of the same reasons?

Will that put our Realtor’s out of work because of the same reasons?

I can go on and on using mechanics, electricians, carpenters, etc., but I’m sure you will understand if you will but open your eyes and quit hiding behind your ideology.

It boils down to these questions:

• What is the role of business in a free society?
• What about successful businesspeople?
• Do businesses have responsibilities to the public that go beyond the law?
• What do they include?
• What virtues does the practice of business instill?
• What vices?
• And what does it mean if the answers the general public gives to these questions diverge significantly from those given by the business elite?

Here was Steve Job’s answer to those questions.

But as Steve Jobs of Apple spoke, Obama interrupted with an inquiry of his own: What would it take to make iPhones in the United States? Not long ago, Apple boasted that its products were made in America. Today, few are. Almost all of the 70 million iPhones, 30 million iPads and 59 million other products Apple sold last year were manufactured overseas.

Why can’t that work come home? Obama asked.

Jobs’ reply was unambiguous. “Those jobs aren’t coming back,” he said, according to another dinner guest.

The president’s question touched upon a central conviction at Apple. It isn’t just that workers are cheaper abroad. Rather, Apple’s executives believe the vast scale of overseas factories as well as the flexibility, diligence and industrial skills of foreign workers have so outpaced their U.S. counterparts that “Made in the USA” is no longer a viable option for most Apple products.

Click here to read the article.

Here is what I want to hear our leaders say.

If we purchase a product from China for twenty dollars, then we have the product and China the money.

But if we buy a product from an American for twenty-five dollars, then America has the product and the money both.

Click here to read the article.

So tell me this.

As a Texan, will you get off your butt and help me to get elected to represent you in our Great State of Texas.

Or are you going to continue to fight like spoiled brats saying Republicans are better than Democrats?

Or are you going to continue to fight like spoiled brats saying Democrats are better than Republicans?

I know which side I’m on and its none of the Above.

I’m on the side that believes that we need both businesses  and the People’s right to a life that should be better and richer and fuller for everyone, with opportunity for each according to ability or achievement regardless of social class or circumstances of birth.

That doesn’t mean that I believe in distributing the wealth or any of that crap.

That means that our people, whether it be here at home in Texas or any other state of the union cannot work their way up the ladder of life when their jobs have been sent to other countries because all that is left is crappy jobs cleaning somebody’s damned toilet.

Is that the future you want for your children?

Here is my one and only campaign promise

I don’t, and what follows is why I don’t.

I do support global trade if it is done in this matter to protect the sovereignty and people of each country:

1. It is OK to grow, raise or manufacture your products here in America and sell them to other countries and the same applies to those countries.
2. It is OK to open retail or manufacturing branches in other countries to offset the shipping problems as long as you hire the locals to work in those countries.
3. It is NOT OK to put the people in your country out of work, send the growing, raising or manufacturing to another country and then import those products back into your country.

Undercover investigation alleges hours of overtime, late wages and fines for using the toilet without permission

Workers in the Hung Hing factory, where the basic wage is £132 a month, put in up to 100 hours of overtime in that period

With Christmas three weeks away, an undercover investigation has revealed the bleak realities of life in Chinese toy factories serving a market worth £2.8bn a year in the UK alone.

Big brands such as Disney, Lego and Marks & Spencer pay only a fraction of the shop price of products to the factories that make their toys  [see footnote]. Last summer – as factories geared up to cope with demand for the Christmas period – investigators spent three weeks in the industrial cities of Shenzhen and Dongguan. In some cases, they found that employees:

■ worked up to 140 hours overtime a month;

■ were paid up to a month late;

■ claimed they were expected to work with dangerous tools and machines without training or safety measures;

■ had to work in silence and were fined up to £5 for going to the toilet without permission.

Perhaps the most insidious effect of the long hours and poor wages was how it tore families apart, separating mothers and fathers from their children for all but a few days a year. Many workers were too afraid to speak to the investigators from human rights group Students & Scholars Against Corporate Misbehaviour (Sacom), but two women did agree to talk on condition that their names were changed.

Wang Fengping, 27, has two daughters, seven and five. They live a 10-hour train journey away from the On Tai Toys factory. She and her husband earn £200 a month making toys for Disney and others, but cannot afford to bring the children to the city. Instead, the girls are cared for by their grandparents. Wang calls them two or three times a week. The younger one always asks her when she is coming home. “Very soon,” Wang always replies.

The reality is that they will meet only once a year, at Chinese new year. She keeps her spirits up by telling her workmates stories of how well the girls are doing at school. Sometimes she sings them songs the girls have learned at school and then sung to her down the phone. “Our family will not die from hunger, but cannot be fed with this wage level,” she said.

Ma Hui, 25, works for the Hung Hing Printing Group, making items for M&S, Lego and Disney. She has a two-year-old daughter, whom she had to leave behind when the child was just three months old in the hope that she could earn enough to one day return home to set up her own business and reunite the family. She, too, only sees her child once a year and has hung a picture of her daughter on the dormitory wall next to her bed.

Sacom accuses big global brands of failing to pay the factories enough, with workers suffering because factories undercut one another in an attempt to secure contracts. The report also criticises the industry’s own regulator for failing to clamp down on rights abuses.

Spokeswoman Debby Chan Sze Wan said: “In the run-up to Christmas, toys are a popular choice as presents for children. They probably bring joy to consumers and the toy companies, but the workers cannot afford toys or books for their beloved children.

“The hardship of workers is due to the exploitation in the global supply chain. If the brands do not raise the unit price and change their purchasing practices, no structural change in working conditions in the toy industry is feasible.”

Investigators targeted three factories, including On Tai Toys Company, which manufactures for Disney and a number of other international brands, and Hung Hing. All the factories are certified as decent toy manufacturers by the International Council of Toy Industries, which is supposed to police ethical standards in more than 2,400 factories that employ an estimated 1.7 million people worldwide. But Sacom has accused ICTI of permitting “rampant labour rights violations” in factories it has certified.

At the Hung Hing factory the researcher found that the 8,000 workers put in up to 100 hours of overtime a month, far in excess of the legal maximum. Workers say they have to sign a document agreeing to work additional overtime on top of the legal maximum. The basic wage was £132 a month (up to £250 with maximum overtime payments) but wages were paid up to three weeks late.

Workers complained of inadequate training with the factory machines and last year one worker died when he fell into a machine. They said there were frequent injuries and concerns over the chemicals used. There were also complaints about the standard of the dormitories, where water for washing and flushing toilets is turned off at 10pm.

At the On Tai Toy Company the researcher found that most of the 1,500 workers were aged between 30 and 50, though around 300 students are drafted in to help cope with the peak season.

The researcher spent three weeks in the factory and found workers put in up to 140 hours of overtime every month, nearly four times the 36 hours a month legal limit.

Basic pay is £110 a month, but wages were paid a month late, in breach of labour law. During the peak summer season workers could make up to £240 a month, including overtime, but that falls to £140 during low season.

A typical working day during the peak season starts at 8am and does not end until 10pm. Workers routinely put in six-day weeks, but if the factory is busy there are no days off.

Workers complained that they were banned from talking to one another on the production line and were fined up to £5 if they went to the toilet without applying for an “off-duty” permit. They reported regular burns from soldering irons and electric shocks from old hair dryers used to set glue, along with concerns about the effect on their health of unmarked chemicals they have to work with. The law requires the chemicals to be identified and for workers to be instructed in what to do in case of an accident. Up to 10 workers share each 20 square metres dormitory room, which is fitted with bunk beds. Dozens share the toilet and the outside of the building is piled deep with rubbish, which is home to rats.

In response to the Sacam researchers’ allegations, Disney said: “The Walt Disney Company and its affiliates take claims of unfair labour practices very seriously, and investigate any such allegations thoroughly.”

Lego said the investigation into working practices at the factory had raised very serious issues, which it took very seriously and which it had asked its licensing partner, Dorling Kindersley, to investigate.

“Ensuring respect for workers’ rights is very important to the Lego Group and all our partners agree to adhere to a strict set of guidelines – our code of conduct. The Lego Group requires all of its licensing partners to give a written assurance that their vendors, too, comply with the Lego Group’s code of conduct, and to audit their suppliers on an annual basis. Adhering to the code of conduct is something that we prioritise in our engagement with our partners. It appears that in this case the code may have been broken and we are addressing this urgently. Once we have the full facts we will take decisive action.”

Dorling Kindersley said that it was deeply concerned by the allegations and had contacted Hung Hing to express its view: “We have strict ethical sourcing standards covering all the issues identified by this investigation. The allegations, if true, would demonstrate a breach of these standards.” It said the factory had recently been audited, but that would now be reviewed, adding: “Our terms of business are absolutely clear, that any supplier in breach of our ethical standards is required to change their practices or face termination.”

A spokesman for Marks & Spencer said: “We are a very small customer of the Hung Hing Printing Group – less than 0.5% of its business. We take any allegation that suggests a breach of our strict ethical standards very seriously and work closely with all our suppliers, including this factory, to ensure they adhere to our strict standards.”

Hung Hing responded with a four- page letter from general manager Dennis Wong in which it admitted that workers could be asked to do overtime of up to 92 hours a month in July and August. The letter said that last month overtime ranged between 23 and 77 hours. The company said workers who refused to do the extra hours were not penalised.

It blamed late payment of wages on the complexity of calculating the rates for more than 8,000 workers, and argued this was a standard industry practice. It insisted that workers did receive safety training, but warned that individual managers would be held responsible for future lapses and would have pay deducted.

The company said that providing water to the toilets after 10pm was wasteful and that barrels of water were available for workers to use to flush.

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I have to wonder about the accuracy of our fearless leaders interpretation of the data at their disposal.

For instance, they will tell you that the consumer accounts for 70 percent of the GDP and I’ve proven that false so many times that I’m not even going to show that chart here, although you can click here if you want to do your due diligence.

Today I stumbled on a interesting data source at the Bureau of Economic Analysis.

It is shown below and you can click here if you want to do your homework.

Table 1.13. National Income by Sector, Legal Form of Organization, and Type of Income

This chart that I have prepared will show you the compensation of wages for corporate, non corporate, and sole proprietorship.

Bet you can guess which is which, can’t you.

So tell me this.

Do you not think that if our corporations continue to send our jobs to other countries to lower their expenses, that it will not eventually lower that corporate wage compensation down to the level of the non corporate and the sole proprietorship level?

Will that not make it impossible for that modest home that you bought for $400,000.00 or so impossible to sell, except for at a tremendous loss?

Do you now understand why I and others like me fight this lonely fight for your future?

You can listen to your representatives and corporate leaders in the media all day long tell you that small business creates the majority of jobs, and perhaps they do.

But that corporate wage line is at 5,000 in Billions whereas those other two are at 1,000 in Billions.

Which tells me that corporate wages are what drive the economy of America, and these corporate wages are the difference between the Middle Class and the Working Poor.

Trust me, as a former and still capable of being in the Upper Middle Class levels, you don’t want to get down to the Working Poor level because as they say in Maine, You Can’t Get There From Here if you’re wanting to climb your way back up.

Not without a ladder and a helping hand of course, which is why I fight those bastards that are pulling up the ladder after they climbed it by sending our jobs to other countries therefore depriving others of the very same opportunities that allowed them to get to where they are at in life.

Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall,
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.
All the king’s horses and all the king’s men
Couldn’t put Humpty together again

The solution is so simple that I cannot understand how they cannot understand it.

Unless you realize that it will destroy their house of cards that they have spent decades building.

Then you realize that they have a vested interest and don’t want to see the solution.

Well, the captain of the Titanic may have sent his ship plummeting to the bottom of the sea on a fool’s mission to beat a schedule, but ole Virgil’s not willing to go down with a ship that he is not the captain of, so like it or not, I’m butting my way into your table just like Leonardo DiCaprio did at that fine, elegant supper where Immelt thew the lighter at him and we’re going to have this conversation.

Domino 1

The U.S.-based CEO of one of the world’s largest hedge funds told me that his firm’s investment committee often discusses the question of who wins and who loses in today’s economy.

In a recent internal debate, he said, one of his senior colleagues had argued that the hollowing-out of the American middle class didn’t really matter. “His point was that if the transformation of the world economy lifts four people in China and India out of poverty and into the middle class, and meanwhile means one American drops out of the middle class, that’s not such a bad trade,” the CEO recalled.

Click  here to read the article.

Domino 2

“We have been seeing wage inflation over the past several months,’’ said Chris Ruffle, who helps manage $19 billion as China co-chairman of Martin Currie Ltd. Rising salaries may prompt businesses that operate plants in China to move to lower-cost countries such as Vietnam and Cambodia, Ruffle said.
http://keepamericaatwork.com/?p=202864

Domino 3

• United States – $47,200.00
• China – $7,600.00
• India – $3,500.00

These figures can be found by clicking here.

• United States – 300 million
• China – 1.2 Billion
• India – 1.2 Billion

That is the approximate population of each country.

It will take 6 new Chinese middle class to equal what 1 American middle class spends which means you will need 300 million time 6 or 1.8 Billion people if you put all Americans out of work.

India will take substantially more.

Bottom line, considering domino 1 & 2, it physically is impossible.

So tell me, do you now understand why your corporations are missing their numbers and why houses are not selling?

The S&P/Case-Shiller gauge of home prices in 20 U.S. cities slid 1.2% in October from September on a non-seasonally adjusted basis, a bigger decline than the 0.5% economists forecast. Home prices dipped 3.4% from the same month last year.

More headlines from FoxBusiness.com:
http://email.foxnews.com/t?ctl=18D14:F077DC301A5C8E47F554B07A62A9F027&

Think of it this way.

We have two bell curves.

The first leads the second by about 30 years.

The first is the middle class of America.

They are on the downward slope and rapidly descending.

For instance, I made $113,000.00 in 2002 and I might make $12,000.00 in 2011

multiply that by 30 to 40 million people and you will see why it is only a matter of time until the second bell curve begins the downward slope and I believe that they are topping that curve right this minute because more and more corporations are missing their earnings.

By the way, the second is corporate earnings.

If you really want to get down to the nut cutting, throw in a third one which will be the extremely wealthy that actually have the balls to think I don’t have any skin in this game because in about 30 years when they’re down on the ground squirming, I’ll be the first in line to piss on the arrogant ones while I will be more than happy to help those that have fought this madness with a hand extended.

So tell me, 1 percenters and 53 percenters.

Which camp will you be on?

The one getting peed on?

Or the one getting a hand up so that we can rebuild and polish that beacon of shining light that sits high atop the Statue of Liberty?

In 2003 I had my eyes opened for the first time, involuntarily.

Like everybody else, I had taken the American Dream for granted.

I had no idea what it meant to be able to come to America and yell out loud that I’m free as many of our ancestors had done and as many of the oppressed of the World have done when the option was available.

I’m not going to bore you with the details as it has been a long agonizing 10 years come two more months, but I will say that I do understand.

I understand what has caused this.

I understand why it will get worse before it gets better.

I understand that about 6 1/2 Billion of us are in this together and that we need to become United if we want to turn on that Beacon of Shining Light that the Statue of Liberty holds for the oppressed of the World..

Which is why I have created Greed-VS-Humanity and Keep The World At Work for the people of the World.

I can’t fight this battle by myself, just as you can’t fight it by yourself.

But with all of us chipping in to use this medium to understand corruption and employment, we can change the World.

Think of these two sites as the FaceBook for fighting Greed, Corruption and Oppression.

Think of these two sites as the modern day Statue of Liberty.

Think of these two sites as your notebook to expose Greed, Corruption and Oppression the World over.

As of today, anybody can register at either Greed-VS-Humanity or Keep The World At Work and post your articles in your own words.

Don’t be shy.

If things are bad in your community, the World needs to hear about it.

I only ask that you:

• Tell the truth the best that you can, and
• Put Employment related issues like sweatshops, jobs being sent to other countries at Keep The World At Work and put corruption related issues at Greed-VS-Humanity

Other than that, log in, create you a user name and tell your story for the World to hear.

I will approve it as soon as I’m able to read it.

I retain the right to disprove it because of the spammers, but if your story relates to employment or corruption, it will be approved simply because this story needs to be told.

I’ve been trying to explain why the World economy is crashing by communication with our leaders, all around the Globe.

Sadly I realize the reason that I’ve not been able to get through to them is because they have a vested interest in seeing things continue on this path.

Which makes me realize that I need to communicate with the 6 1/2 Billion people the World over that are going to live through this nightmare.

Sure, for some of you, as America sends our jobs to your country, you will do better.

But as America giveth, America can taketh away and they will do so when they believe that your wages are getting too high and they will do that by sending your jobs to less expensive countries which will do the same thing to those in China and India that it has done to Americans.

In other words, if you have the skills, you will see your wages go through the roof and you will live the life of the middle class and then one day, through no fault of your own, you will suddenly find yourself unable to find any type of middle class work which will send you crashing back into poverty.

Trust me, I speak from experience as I have experienced this first hand.

Which is why I rack my brain daily trying to figure out how to get the people of the World to wake up.

Because it does not have to be this way.

Let me show you what is happening using our drunken sailors.

The fleet from China, India and America arrived in Monaco today after a full year of war games off of the coast of Greece.

Being thirsty, they immediately drew their pay and they headed to the waterfront dives where they were sure to spend their money in a wild night of fun.

The American had $47,000.00 on him.

The guy from China had $7,600.00 on him.

The guy from India had $3,100.00 on him

After a wild night full of wine, women and song they pulled back out to sea and the bar owners suddenly found themselves $50,700.00 richer.

Now let’s look at it after we have lowered the wages of all three countries to their average by shipping jobs to cheaper countries.

The fleet from China, India and America arrived in Monaco today after a full year of war games off of the coast of Greece.

Being thirsty, they immediately drew their pay and they headed to the waterfront dives where they were sure to spend their money in a wild night of fun.

The American had $16,900.00 on him.

The guy from China had $16,900.00 on him.

The guy from India had $16,900.00 on him.

After a wild night full of wine, women and song they pulled back out to sea and the bar owners suddenly found themselves $50,700.00 richer.

You are probably thinking big deal.

China and India made more and America made less.

But the end result was the same.

Or was it?

Let’s thrown in the cost of living for each country

The fleet from China, India and America arrived in Monaco today after a full year of war games off of the coast of Greece.

Being thirsty, they immediately drew their pay and they headed to the waterfront dives where they were sure to spend their money in a wild night of fun.

The American had $16,900.00 on him, but his wife needed $47,000.00 to pay bills back in America, so he was locked up by shore patrol to protect him from going mad.

The guy from China had $16,900.00 on him and his wife needed $7,600.00 to pay bills, so he had $9,300.00 on him.

The guy from India had $16,900.00 on him and his wife needed $3,100.00 to pay bills, so he had $13,800.00 on him.

After a mild night full of wine, women and song they pulled back out to sea and the bar owners suddenly found themselves $23,100.00 richer.

Now do you understand why the economy of the World continues to grow worse no matter what our so called leaders do?

Our economists will tell you that they spend decades learning and studying the economy and that it is very complicated.

I can simplify it so that it will fit in one sentence.

A strong economy requires people that make more than what it costs to live.

As long as the price of living continues to go up, and wages continue to be artificially driven down by large corporations, our economy the World over will continue to get worse.

It really is that simple.

I was born on 27 Dec 1957 and I’m not a big believer in miracles because I’ve always believed that we make our own future which is why I work so hard at the things I do.

I believe in hard, accurate, verifiable data.

For instance, this chart showing the GDP broken down into the percentages that Government, Business, People and Exports accounted for can easily be recreated by you at BEA.GOV if you want to verify it for yourself.

And the data for this chart can easily be recreated by you at Worldbank.org if you want to take the time

This is the future that we currently are pursuing if we continue on the path that Kay Bailey Hutchison and others are pursuing via their free trade agreements.

This is the free trade that I believe will turn it around, and yes, it does allow for global trade because I believe we need global trade and I also believe we need to protect the sovereignty of each country and the people of each country because when we pursue this game of musical countries (chairs), we enrich few at the expense of the majority and this is unacceptable.

1. It is OK to grow, raise or manufacture your products here in America and sell them to other countries and the same applies to those countries.
2. It is OK to open retail or manufacturing branches in other countries to offset the shipping problems as long as you hire the locals to work in those countries.
3. It is NOT OK to put the people in your country out of work, send the growing, raising or manufacturing to another country and then import those products back into your country.

Sometimes I feel like I’m in a race against time and my opponent is the complete financial destruction of our World.

I want you to think about something no matter the country that you live in.

Times are good in your community or household when somebody with money to spend comes in and spreads that money around.

It might be your wealthy uncle or just a stranger having a good time.

Think of that person as America.

American’s love to spend money and since they have made money through history, times have been good for everybody the world over that sold their products to Americans, and even other countries.

Yet Greed has reared its ugly head as described in that previous article about J.P. Morgan.

And stupidity too.

Take a close look at that second chart and you will see why austerity is being forced on people the world over.

After all, when you put your best customer out of business, how can you hope to sell your products to them?

But that is not the reason I’m writing this article.

As you can see on the right hand sidebar, I’ve begun posting video’s of musicians singing “The Impossible Dream” because that describes us and those that fight for balance between humanity and greed.

Now I’m no singer, but many of you are, so i want your youtube video’s of you singing “The Impossible Dream” to add to the right hand sidebar.

Don’t be shy.

Hell, I don’t care if you are one person, or a group of people.

I just want the world to know that you and I, believe that we can achieve “The Impossible Dream”

send them to me at vbiersch@gmail.com